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Ruining their daughters wedding, blowing in their driveway, destroying their mailbox....hmmmm.... Without hearing the stories of harassment towards the farmer, your post sure sounds like a big machinery farmer bullying his neighbours to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenelon
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Originally Posted by Hunter John
No but a Torranna Cop might whack the farmer for knocking down the old Mailbox and the farmer might have fun explaining himself in front of the local JP.The same Torranna Cop would probably recommend a driver re test for the farmer just to add to the fun as he appears to be losing his ability to drive.
P.S. You gotta watch what Torranna Cop shows up cause some can be real sob,s LOL
Not just Torranna Cops !Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilroy
That would be reasonable enough.
A guy I worked with - 20 yrs ago - had a problem with a neighbour - ordered a dump truck of fresh manure (and paid for it) and had it delivered to the guys house - told the farmer just back up and dump it right in front of the garage door. The guy only had a small house on a small lot and didn't own a truck! No one even knew who the farmer was! We laughed till we we cried!
ROFLMAO! I had a co-worker that told a foreman who had been harrassing him for years that he was giving away free fertilizer. Foreman sidles up to him all nicey-nicey and says he would really like some,so,that's exactly what he got while away on holidays. Fifteen yards of uncomposted manure laid in the foreman's driveway for a week before he came home. True story.Quote:
Originally Posted by SK33T3R
Things must be different up here where I live. You would never get a cop to come for a mailbox complaint. There sure wouldn't be any JP. You'd call the City Of Kawartha Lakes and you'd get an answering machine . You'd then get to log online and put in a "service prompt" explaining that your mailbox had been hit, and you'd like to talk to a bylaw officer. If you're really lucky, you might get a phone call two weeks later. If you call again and complain, then the bylaw officer would go see the farmer and confront them. The farmer would deny it, saying he isn't aware of knocking any mail box over. Short of having video footage, it would be he said-she said, even if your place burnt to the ground and the OPP finally agreed to come out (we don't have municipal police service up here). Meanwhile, the anus anti-hunter neighbour who can't mind his own business, gets to spend the next two months with elevated blood pressure, paying to drive 25km in to town to pick up his mail at the post office. This is what we call "circumstantial punishment" up my way, and it tends to keep happening to people who insist on being pricks. The farmer then has the cool option of waiting another month until a new mailbox finally goes up, then knock it off again. The same process repeats itself, and usually at this time, the prick starts to learn an important thing about manners and proper respect of others who live around you. I know of no enforcement officer who could make any charge stick in the case of the manure spread. Any farmer with working land could easily argue that it's not up to them to schedule their livelihood and business that they are running around the social schedule of people who elected to build a house in the middle of a farm field. The farmer has a government approved and inspected OMAFRA nutrient management plan for their property. Pretty rude of the city neighbour not to call over and let him know they were planning an outdoor wedding! Most of the folks up my way have strong Irish/Scotish roots that go back hundreds of years. The poor farmer can't help it. He's genetically predisposed to want to retaliate and "educate" the neighbour. After all, he comes from a lineage where men in wet wool skirts (with steam coming off them) used to periodically come down, out of the fog, from the hills, and casually beat someone to death with a sod spade!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilroy
You forget that the men in wool skirts got killed over their feuds in turn. What goes around comes around, and two can play at the game of "you're gonna have to prove it." Once you decide you're outside the law, you're playing on a field with no rules and being thankful you haven't messed with anyone more violent than you. But the day may yet come.
I believe Hadrian built wall to stop that LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Fenelon
You've got that one right. I've heard of some pretty nasty neighbour wars - diesel down the well over a shot hound, cottages that burn to the ground, trees all cut down with a chainsaw on the front lawn. Probably one of the nastiest - guy really pisses the neighbour off, and a nasty war starts. The one guy lived on a 20acre bush parcel, and had just fenced the entire boundary of his property (posts and pagewire. You'd have to do the math, but we're talking a ton of money. His fence did not meet the setback law, and without an official survey, he had unknowingly run much of the fence onto parts of the neighbour's land. The dude awoke to a skidsteer starting to rip his fence down and he called the cops. He had to tear the entire fence down, then the landowner (who was a RPF (basically a professional forester) took him to court, represented himself, and successfully charged him for cutting down the km+ of trees that he had removed to put the fence in. He received money for the loss of aesthetic value that removal of the trees had caused on his property.The guy settled and paid him after he started racking up a big legal fee for the lawyer he had to hire. Nasty! He might have been better off if he had just been thrashed with a grain flail!Quote:
Originally Posted by welsh